Motivational Quotes

Science

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Science

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

Burroughs, William S.

Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.

Krasel, Cornelius

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Franklin, Benjamin

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

Parsons, Talcott

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Plato

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Ehrlich, Paul

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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Swift, Jonathan

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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Bronowski, Jacob

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If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?

Confucius

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Dick, Philip K.

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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

Washington, George

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Rostand, Jean

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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Pascal, Blaise

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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Marquis, Don

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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Levi, Primo

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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.

Clark, Frank A.

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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov

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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Lessing, Doris

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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Brown, Olympia

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What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Rowland, Helen

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In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Bancroft, George

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Roux, Joseph

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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Fromm, Erich

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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things.

Allen, Woody

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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Nash, Ogden

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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Butler, Samuel

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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Freud, Sigmund

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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.